The present invention relates to a wireless communication and, more specifically, to a method for transmitting an HARQ) response by a UE in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for the same. The method includes receiving an E-PDCCH signal on at least one of a plurality of enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) sets, each E-PDCCH set including a plurality of resources units indexed per E-PDCCH set; and transmitting the HARQ response using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource determined using the index of the first resource unit among one or more resource units carrying the E-PDCCH signal, wherein the index of the first resource unit is determined on the basis of the E-PDCCH set having the lowest index among the plurality of E-PDCCH sets when specific conditions are satisfied.
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1. A method for transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) response by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, by the UE, an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) signal corresponding to one E-PDDCH set of two E-PDCCH sets configured for the UE, each E-PDCCH set including a plurality of resource units and having a unique E-PDCCH set index; and transmitting, by the UE, the HARQ response using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource determined by the UE based on a specific index of one resource unit of the plurality of resource units that exists in each of the two E-PDCCH sets, wherein the specific index is a resource unit index for the one resource unit that exists within one of the two E-PDCCH sets having a lowest E-PDCCH set index when each of specific condition i), specific condition ii) and specific condition iii) described below is satisfied: specific condition i)—two of E-PDCCH sets are scrambled with a same sequence, specific condition ii)—the UE is configured to monitor E-PDCCH candidates that are included in the two E-PDCCH sets and that have a same attribute, specific condition iii)—the E-PDCCH candidates are mapped to a same physical resource.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the E-PDCCH candidates having the same attribute include E-PDCCH candidates having a same downlink control information (DCI) payload size.
3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the E-PDCCH candidates having the same attribute include E-PDCCH candidates having a same radio network temporary identifier (RNTI).
4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the RNTI includes a cell-RNTI (C-RNTI) or a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) C-RNTI.
5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each E-PDCCH set includes one or more physical resource blocks (PRBs) and the plurality of resource units includes a plurality of enhanced control channel elements (eCCEs).
6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) signal indicated by the E-PDCCH signal, wherein the HARQ response includes acknowledgement information for the PDSCH signal.
7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, when the E-PDCCH signal includes information indicating SPS release, the HARQ response includes acknowledgement information for the E-PDCCH signal.
8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of resource units are resource units of a second region of two regions of a subframe, and specific condition iii) comprises the E-PDCCH candidates are mapped to a same physical resource in the second region.
9. A UE configured to transmit a HARQ response in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising: a radio frequency (RF) unit; and a processor operatively connected to the RF unit and configured to: receive an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) signal corresponding to one E-PDDCH set of two E-PDCCH sets configured for the UE, each E-PDCCH set including a plurality of resource units and having a unique E-PDCCH set index; and transmit the HARQ response using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource determined by the UE based on a specific index of one resource unit of the plurality of resource units that exists in each of the two E-PDCCH sets, wherein the specific index is a resource unit index for the one resource unit that exists within one of the two E-PDCCH sets having a lowest E-PDCCH set index when each of specific condition i), specific condition ii) and specific condition iii) described below is satisfied: specific condition i)—two of E-PDCCH sets are scrambled with a same sequence, specific condition ii)—the UE is configured to monitor E-PDCCH candidates that are included in the two E-PDCCH sets and that have a same attribute, specific condition iii)—the E-PDCCH candidates are mapped to a same physical resource.
10. The UE according to claim 9 , wherein the E-PDCCH candidates having the same attribute include E-PDCCH candidates having a same DCI payload size.
11. The UE according to claim 9 , wherein the E-PDCCH candidates having the same attribute include E-PDCCH candidates having a same RNTI.
12. The UE according to claim 11 , wherein the RNTI includes a C-RNTI or an SPS C-RNTI.
13. The UE according to claim 9 , wherein each E-PDCCH set includes one or more PRBs and the plurality of resource units includes a plurality of eCCEs.
14. The UE according to claim 9 , wherein the processor is configured to further receive a PDSCH signal indicated by the E-PDCCH signal, wherein the HARQ response includes acknowledgement information for the PDSCH signal.
15. The UE according to claim 9 , wherein, when the E-PDCCH signal includes information indicating SPS release, the HARQ response includes acknowledgement information for the E-PDCCH signal.
16. The UE according to claim 9 , wherein the plurality of resource units are resource units of a second region of two regions of a subframe, and specific condition iii) comprises the E-PDCCH candidates are mapped to a same physical resource in the second region.
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October 31, 2013
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